That's true, Al.......
That, and the video game tryin' to tell me in "real time" how to run my motor,
is why I'm not re-certing this year. My licence runs out end of November, my
vacation starts first of December an' I ain't coming back. The guy who ran the
signal and "T-boned" the mty at Fortin got two months as a brakeman in the
Edgemont yard, and still thinks it was the signal system's fault because he
couldn't figure out the train comin' around the other leg of the wye was gonna'
end up on the same track as he was!!!!!!
I was in Gillette when the train ran out of the Coal Siding and smacked the
light engine in the Yard, Joleene the Operator still says it was a he** of a
bang :>)
BNMIke
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Winton" <wyhog@...> wrote:
>
> I've never understood why RR management repeatedly let screw-ups come back to
> work. It is law that the union must defend and try its best to restore all
> members rights whether most of the rest of the local thinks the person should
> be permanently fired or not. So the union has no choice. But the RR managers
> do. There have been cases where fired employees never got back to work on the
> RR but those are the exceptions to the norm. Anybody can make a mistake but
> there are some who never learn yet are restored to service time after time.
> Frankly I don't want to run against those people, one day their screw-up
> might kill me. Get rid of them permanently.
>
> Years ago one crew around here failed to tie ANY handbrakes on a coal train
> they parked on a grade, and then cut off the lead unit to take it to the
> house without properly cutting in the new lead unit's air brakes. The train
> rolled off the hill into the yard, collided with the head end of another
> parked train, destroyed locos, knocked down a large concrete overhead
> pedestrian bridge, turned over numerous tank cars. The crews' punishment? To
> show safety films to crews coming on duty for two weeks, with pay. Huh?
>
> AK
>
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